William Stanley Jevons Quotes
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.William Stanley Jevons
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
Daisy Donovan -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts -
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
Patrice Leconte -
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde -
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
Ben Affleck -
Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
Madeleine de Souvre -
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
Earl Nightingale
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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
Dalai Lama -
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
Immanuel Kant -
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
Quincy Jones -
I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
Vincent Cassel
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The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras. Within these hearts are seals which control exchange of energy between layers of the aura through that chakra. That is, each of the seven chakras has seven layers, each corresponding to a layer of the auric field.
Barbara Brennan -
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
William Stanley Jevons